Nurturing rivers, saving ecosystems

that Santa Fe's water needs can't be met without impounding snowmelt in the reserviors.

Only when the reserviors are full can any extra snowmelt run through the Santa fe arroyo.

What is so hard to understand about this?

all good except wrote:

that Santa Fe's water needs can't be met without impounding snowmelt in the reserviors.
Only when the reserviors are full can any extra snowmelt run through the Santa fe arroyo.
What is so hard to understand about this?

missing the point. He is discussing storm-water runoff, in all water courses round the city. If we can slow it down to minimize erosion, as well as allowing some to infiltrate, we will be doing ourselves a long-term favor. "What is so hard to understand about this?"

missing the point. Their agenda is to have water flow through the Santa Fe arroyo year round.

This is impossible given the water needs of the city of Santa Fe.

By the looks of all those painted trees on East Alamada, it would appear the City plans on neutering the Santa Fe River of most trees.
Are they going to kill all those trees just for bicyclists? If I bicycled I sure would protest the decimation of all those river trees.
Some bureaucrats can be so stupid.

Ambro, here you go again--the psuedo scientist. Vaccines are bad, siberian elms are good, world is going to end. And you know because of all your scientific training. Why are there so many pesimistic crystal loving hippies in this town? Elms are not good trees to have around. They should be used as a transitional source of shade and tree. The reason reservoirs are needed is because the river has downcutted, sometimes as much as 15 feet. We no longer have the beavers and slow infiltration of water with a meadering braided river with pools, seeps and springs located along the whole stretch. It isn't natural, you're right, but only because you hippies take humans out of nature. You sit in your cities and complain, complain, complain. Let's stop complaining about everything, get out there, and design things and work to make them better. Why are there so many armchair pseudo scientists in this town. Go get a degree. Study statistics and biology and botany and physics. Stop complaining.

is that storm waters historically are appropriated down stream. Therefore you would be taking someone else's water. The solution is a state wide water banking recharge program, once there is an adjudication of the water rights pre existing. I support both water for environment and for appropriation. One solution for those who want the river to flow, they could reach in their tight wallets and raise funds to purchase pre existing rights......

Garcia wrote:

Ambro, here you go again--the psuedo .

Most of the painted trees are Cottonwood trees. Don`t need to be a scientist to know that. I can understand why people don`t like shade trees or greenery. They`re too busy watching TV.

Garcia wrote:

Ambro, here you go again--the psuedo

You insist on calling me a hippy. I`m the biggest red neck in town. It`s a diverse world out there. You seem to be attached to gross generalizations.